Declining public confidence: policing’s quiet crisis?

What happens when people who witness crime feel like calling the police would only make things worse.
Both members of the public and police must engage, learn, educate, and evolve, writes Valarie Findlay.
It may not be the threat to Canadian policing that one would expect, but recent incidents involving police organizations across the country may pull public confidence down to levels not seen since 2012. A recent Angus Reid poll shows the public’s confidence in the RCMP and provincial and municipal...

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